Is : poems /
In "Is," Wayne Dodd continues his on-going search for a poetry able to incorporate the polyphony of our culture's past, while investigating the insights and implications of quantum physics and the motion and fate of our being. At once lyrical, self-mocking, skeptical, and haunted by l...
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| Language: | English |
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Rochester, NY :
BOA Editions,
2003
Rochester, NY : 2003 |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | American poets continuum series ;
no. 79 American poets continuum series ; v. 8 American poets continuum series ; no. 79 American poets continuum series ; v. 79 American poets continuum series v. 79 American poets continuum series |
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Table of Contents:
- People Rode the Subway Then
- Say a Person Suddenly
- Etc.
- Some Sentences
- Let's Say This Is a Propitious Day
- Four Compositions Clustered Around a Disappearing Center
- Black Holes in Her Stockings, Dark Matter in Her Seams
- Titivational Notes Anent de Langue (and de Short of It)
- An Afternoon in Summer (1998)
- Postulation and Reply
- Figure and Ground
- Looks Like We're Going to Have to Knuckle Down Down Here, Winsocki
- Outtakes From a (Unauthorized) Biopic of America
- Self-Portrait
- One Plus One: Equals
- Non-Narrative
- Standard Candle
- Precis
- Q & A (Mostly Q)
- In the Age of the Declarative
- Language Study
- Wallace Stevens Considers the Untranslatability of the Word Gita
- In the Knot Beyond Reproof
- Feather Boas on the Terrace
- Apperception. Animadversion
- This Is a Poem
- It Could Be Anything
- Now: A Gathering of Fragments
- In Quell' Evo: Un Romanzo di Nove Parti
- People Rode the Subway Then
- Say a Person Suddenly
- Etc.
- Some Sentences
- Let's Say This Is a Propitious Day
- Four Compositions Clustered Around a Disappearing Center
- Black Holes in Her Stockings, Dark Matter in Her Seams
- Titivational Notes Anent de Langue (and de Short of It)
- An Afternoon in Summer (1998)
- Postulation and Reply
- Figure and Ground
- Looks Like We're Going to Have to Knuckle Down Down Here, Winsocki
- Outtakes From a (Unauthorized) Biopic of America
- Self-Portrait
- One Plus One: Equals
- Non-Narrative
- Standard Candle
- Precis
- Q & A (Mostly Q)
- In the Age of the Declarative
- Language Study
- Wallace Stevens Considers the Untranslatability of the Word Gita
- In the Knot Beyond Reproof
- Feather Boas on the Terrace
- Apperception. Animadversion
- This Is a Poem
- It Could Be Anything
- Now: A Gathering of Fragments
- In Quell' Evo: Un Romanzo di Nove Parti
- People Rode the Subway Then 13
- Say a Person Suddenly 14
- Etc 15
- Some Sentences 16
- Let's Say This Is a Propitious Day 17
- Four Compositions Clustered Around a Disappearing Center 18
- Black Holes in Her Stockings, Dark Matter in Her Seams 22
- Titivational Notes Anent de Langue (and de Short of It) 25
- An Afternoon in Summer (1998) 27
- Postulation and Reply 28
- Figure and Ground 30
- Looks Like We're Going to Have to Knuckle Down Down Here, Winsocki 35
- Outtakes From a (Unauthorized) Biopic of America 41
- Self-Portrait 49
- One Plus One: Equals 50
- Non-Narrative 52
- Standard Candle 53
- Precis 54
- Q & A (Mostly Q) 58
- In the Age of the Declarative 59
- Language Study 60
- Wallace Stevens Considers the Untranslatability of the Word Gita 61
- In the Knot Beyond Reproof 62
- Feather Boas on the Terrace 63
- Apperception. Animadversion 67
- This Is a Poem 70
- It Could Be Anything 74
- Now: A Gathering of Fragments 78
- In Quell' Evo: Un Romanzo di Nove Parti 83.